Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet

The bill enacts the "Violence Prevention in Health-care Settings Act", applicable to hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, nursing care facilities, assisted living residences, and federally qualified health centers, and the "Violence Prevention in Behavioral Health Settings Act", applicable to comprehensive community behavioral health providers. Both acts require each of these facility types to: Establish a workplace violence prevention committee to document and review workplace violence incidents at the facility and develop and regularly review a workplace violence prevention plan (plan) for the facility; Adopt, implement, enforce, and update the plan; Provide training on the plan and on workplace violence prevention; Submit biannual workplace violence incident reports to the department of public health and environment or the behavioral health administration, as applicable; and If a workplace violence incident occurs, offer post-incident services to affected staff. The bill specifies the required components of facility plans. Facilities are prohibited from discouraging staff from contacting or filing an incident report with law enforcement. The bill also prohibits retaliation, discipline, or discrimination against a person who reports a workplace violence incident in good faith, who advises a staff member of the right to report an incident, or who chooses not to report an incident. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill requires that on or before July 1, 2025, a social media company must post published policies for each of its social media platforms. Thereafter, a social media company must post any updates to the policies within 14 days after the implementation of the updated policies. The published policies must include: Contact information that allows a user to ask the social media company questions about the published policies; A description of the process that a user must follow to flag content, groups, or other users that the user believes violate the published policies; A process to which the social media company commits for the purpose of responding to and resolving user questions and flags; A statement that the use of the social media platform for the promotion, sale or advertisement of any illicit substance; for the sale of any firearm in violation of state or federal law; for sex trafficking of a juvenile; or for the possession, display, exchange, distribution, sale, or creation of, or the inducement to create, sexually exploitative material is prohibited; A description of the social media company's process for enforcing its published policies and the potential consequences of violating the published policies; and A statement that violations of the published policies that also violate state or federal law will may be reported to law enforcement for investigation and potential prosecution ; A description of the social media company's policies and practices with respect to personal data and safeguards for juveniles; Information about how to access required safeguards and parental tools, including information for juveniles or their parents about options to opt out of or control personalized recommendation systems and other platform features; Notice about whether the social media platform uses or makes available to juveniles a product, service, or design feature that presents a heightened risk of harm to juveniles; and If the social media platform operates a personalized recommendation system, a description of how the personalized recommendation system is used to provide information to juveniles. A social media company must annually submit to the attorney general a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company: The current version of the published policies of the social media platform; If the social media company has filed its first report, a complete and detailed description of any changes to the published policies since the previous report; A statement of whether the current version of the published policies contains definitions and or provisions relating to illicit substances, the sale of firearms in violation of state or federal law, sex trafficking of a juvenile, or the possession, display, exchange, distribution, sale, or creation of, or the inducement to create, sexually exploitative material and, if so, the definitions of those categories and a description of those provisions; A detailed description of content moderation practices used by the social media company; Data concerning activities of users based in the United States, including a breakdown of Colorado-based users' activities with regard to certain prohibited categories of content; Data describing actioned items of content and related actions taken by the social media company; Data concerning how juveniles in Colorado use the social media platform; A detailed description of the social media platform's age verification practices, how they are enforced, and how the social media platform responds to user reports of violations; and Data concerning a social media platform's application of its published policies. The bill also requires a social media company to: Use a commercially reasonable process to verify each user's and each potential user's age; Treat a user as a juvenile if the user's device communicates or signals that the user is a juvenile; Allow each user of its social media platforms to select an option to apply the protections available to juveniles; Retain any information obtained for age verification purposes only for the purpose of compliance and for no other purpose and to dispose of such information securely after age verification is complete. Additionally, any agent of a social media company that processes age verification information must have its principal place of business in the United States. Provide readily accessible and easy-to-use tools and settings for parents and guardians to support an individual that a social media platform knows or reasonably should know is a juvenile with respect to the individual's juvenile's use of the social media platform. A social media platform must provide similar tools to an individual that the social media platform knows or reasonably should know is a juvenile. Provide an individual that the platform knows or reasonably should know is a juvenile with clear and conspicuous warnings of certain threats and events regarding content that the individual shares or accesses on a social media platform; Immediately Within 24 hours after determining a violation was made, remove any user of a social media platform who promotes, sells or advertises an illicit substance or engages in the sale of a firearm in violation of state or federal law, the sex trafficking of a juvenile, or the possession, display, exchange, distribution, sale, or creation of, or the inducement to create, sexually exploitative material ; keep the user removed until there is human review of this activity; and permanently remove the user if human review confirms the user engaged in such an action; Retain for at least one year any data and metadata concerning users' identities and activities on the social media platform; Initially respond to any inquiry from a law enforcement agency within 3 days after receiving the inquiry to confirm receipt and to fulfill the law enforcement request within 30 days after receiving the inquiry. A social media company shall preserve the data needed to respond to an inquiry from a law enforcement agency. The bill prohibits a social media company from: Alerting a user to the fact that a law enforcement agency is investigating the user's activity and or account; or Using dark patterns to lead or encourage juveniles to provide personal information, beyond what is reasonably expected, to disable safeguards or parental controls, or to forgo privacy protections. or to take any action that the social media platform knows is not in the best interest of juveniles reasonably likely to access the social media platform. A violation of the bill's provisions, or an act to aid or abet such a violation, is a deceptive trade practice and punishable pursuant to the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

The act establishes a statutory bill of rights for children and youth (youth) in foster care in Colorado, including youth participating in the foster youth in transition program but excluding youth detained by or committed to the care and physical custody of the division of youth services. The office of the child's representative shall develop a written notice of the rights, and a county department of human or social services shall provide each youth who is 5 years of age or older with the written notice in the youth's primary language at the time of the youth's initial placement in foster care, at each placement change, and at least annually. APPROVED by Governor April 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Under current law, a school district, the state charter school institute, or the governing board of a nonpublic school may adopt a policy for a school to maintain a supply of and distribute opiate antagonists. The act allows the adoption of a similar policy for maintaining a supply of opiate antagonists on school buses and extends existing civil and criminal immunity to school bus operators and other employees present on buses if they furnish or administer an opiate antagonist in good faith, in addition to other requirements. Additionally, the act allows an adopted policy to allow an employee or agent of the school to furnish an opiate antagonist to any individual, including a student, but only if the student has received school-sponsored training. Under current law, a school district, the state charter school institute, or the governing board of a nonpublic school may adopt a policy for a school to maintain a supply of and distribute non-laboratory synthetic opiate detection tests. The act allows the adoption of a similar policy for non-laboratory additive detection tests and extends existing civil immunity provisions to include non-laboratory additive detection tests. The act requires a school, school district, or the state charter school institute to not prohibit a student of the school district or institute charter school to possess or administer on school grounds, on a school bus, or at any school-sponsored event an opiate antagonist and possess a non-laboratory synthetic opiate detection test or a non-laboratory additive detection test. APPROVED by Governor April 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law specifies the conditions a person must meet in order to change the person's name if the person was convicted of a felony. Among those conditions is that the person must show good cause to be able to change the person's name to a name different from the name the person was convicted under. The act states that good cause includes changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity. The act authorizes the court to require a petitioner to give public notice of a name change if the name change was requested by a petitioner with a felony conviction and is for the purpose of changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity. APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 19, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to offer to enter into a direct contract with the managed care organization (MCO) operated by or under the control of the Denver health and hospital authority (Denver health) until Denver health ceases to operate a medicaid managed care program or until June 30, 2025. The act removes the option for the department to enter into a direct contract until June 30, 2025, and instead requires the department to enter into the contract from July 1, 2025, until June 30, 2032, as long as the MCO meets all MCO criteria required by the department. If the department designates a managed care entity (MCE) other than the MCO operated by Denver health to manage behavioral health-care services, the act requires Denver health to collaborate with the MCE during the term of the contract. The act prohibits the MCO from reimbursing contracted medicaid providers at rates that are higher than the department's medicaid fee for service rates unless the provider enters into a quality incentive agreement with the MCO. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the department distributed money appropriated for a supplemental state payment to Denver health. The act authorizes the department to continually distribute any money appropriated for payment to Denver health. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 4, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act allows an enrollee in the state medicaid program or with a private health insurance carrier whose coverage has been terminated or not renewed to receive continued care with the enrollee's same health-care provider or health-care facility under the enrollee's new health benefit plan at the in-network level under the enrollee's new health benefit plan for specified time periods if certain conditions exist. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The bill requires each manufacturer of a prescription drug that is available for purchase in this state (manufacturer) to register with and pay a fee to the division of insurance. The bill requires a manufacturer to offer a copayment assistance program to a covered person, either for the entire plan year or for the calendar year, whichever the deductible and out-of-pocket calculation applies to, for as long as the covered person is enrolled in the health benefit plan. A manufacturer that violates the requirements commits an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)